Fresh from its 2011 victory in Snyder v. Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church has submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Windsor, the case the Supreme Court will hear next month on the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. Whether by accident or design, Westboro now has the surely unprecedented distinction of authoring a brief to the Supreme Court on a constitutional question that makes not a single mention of the Constitution itself.

The brief seems to make a pretty straight forward argument. The Supreme Diety will nuke our cities if gay marriage is legal. I had never really thought about it, but that does seem like a pretty compelling state interest that would pass strict scrutiny . . . if you believed the predicate.